Insect Screens For French Doors
|Insect Screens For French Doors – A screen door is a great way to not only allow some fresh air and sun to your house, but also to keep insects and other pests out at the same time. By using a screen door, you also have the capacity to keep your house enclosed, while allowing a breeze, possibly when the weather is hot or anytime you just need to allow just a little bit of atmosphere in. Although you can buy screen doors for your house, they are in fact fairly simple to make, requiring only a few tools and supplies, using simple building methods. Display doors can be very simple in design, or could be more elaborate, based upon your wants and building skills.
Supplies You Will Need, You will need some thin wood inventory to use for the screen door structure, a hardware frame for the doorway itself, and screen meshing, together with a 1/4 inch from 3/4 inch screen molding. You’ll also need paint brushes, glue brushes, varnish and 1 inch nails.
Designing and Cutting the Door, Thinner wood inventory is generally used when building a screen door, generally in a five-eighths thickness. Choose a well-dried timber to prevent future timber shrinkage, warping or swelling. Measure the dimensions of the doorway you want to construct, and cut the vertical and horizontal pieces to match. While building the doorway, it can help to clamp the door bits to a work table. To produce the corner joins, as well as when adding the center horizontal support piece, you’ll want to take off half of the depth of a single piece of timber where they will match a saw, so the general finished thickness of the joint will be equivalent to that of a single piece of wood. Use a polyurethane glue and a brush to attach the timber support bits together, then clamp and let it dry completely.
Adding the Display to the Door, Putting the doorway flat on the work table, measure the general opening and cut a piece of screen material into the proper dimensions, leaving a few inches around the edges to make setup easier, which is trimmed later. Lay the screen over the top of the door frame, and staple it to the peak of the frame, pulling it closely towards the base of the doorway. Be sure to pull the screen tightly from the flat directions as well, keeping in mind that screen will elongate over time. The screen can be stapled directly to the doorway, as the principles will be dealt with by molding that will be placed around the border of the screen. After the screen has been stapled securely into place, trim the screen and cover the edges with the screen molding.
Finishing the Job, when the doorway itself has been assembled, you can set up the door frame , and attach the new screen door into the frame. Attach a door handle and secure the door into the frame with spring hinges so the door will close mechanically.